Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case

Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by rkt88edmo on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:33PM (#25194244)

NO - these aren't workplace permits, they are personal licenses for the employees. They can already carry guns on their building grounds without a permit. The company is stepping in on behalf of their employees for to get these permits issued to them as individuals, so Apple's willingness to participate in the bribery is on the company. I do agree that the police have done the far greater crime in the abuse of their authority. No one really cared when the only permit issued by the city of Oakland was to Jerry Brown's personal assistant Jacques.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by zepto on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:36PM (#25194666)

How do you know Apple was stepping in on behalf of employees?

It sounds like it was the Employees alone.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by rkt88edmo on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:48PM (#25194744)

The articles frame it as the Head of Apple security acting on the behalf of 4 potential Apple security team licensees - so at least 3 of those Apple employees aren't him. He's acting on behalf of his employees, I'd say that is Apple stepping in.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by o-__-o on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:18AM (#25195527)

And this is why your company develops strict anti-bribery programs as soon as reasonably possible.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by Schiendelman on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:24PM (#25233098)

Apple already had those programs (I’ve taken the training!) - they are not enforcing their policies, and protecting someone who broke them.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by sgt on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:11AM (#25197390)

Why do Apple guards need to carry guns in the first place? Those guards should just be monitoring and alerting real law enforcement if a break-in happens. If someone goes postal, then I guess there should be several normal folks at Apple already carrying and able to protect the general public.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by joshstrange on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#25200979)

> If someone goes postal, then I guess there should be several normal folks at Apple already carrying and able to protect the general public.

So your solution is other, probably lesser-trained, individual Apple employees should be concealed-carrying so they can respond to a workplace shooting? Let's ignore that Apple probably doesn't allow this in the first place but even if they did I would not want to work in an environment where my coworkers were walking around with guns all the time. I have no problem with guns or CCW but in the workplace is a different story for me.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by sgt on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:35PM (#25206073)

Yeah, when you put it that way...

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by joshstrange on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:41PM (#25206098)

Then help me understand. You have a shooting on the Apple campus, your ideal response is...? From your previous comment it sounds like you expected Apple employees who have their CCW and are carrying to handle it, was I mistaken?

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by sgt on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:45PM (#25215882)

In theory that could be a scalable approach. Citizens taking command and you will eventually have more armed people on Apple campus. But I tend to agree with your argument now. People just aren't trained for it.

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